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Johnny Depp to Star in “Hand of Dante”

By Allan Ford | Dec 4, 2008 | Movie News (1) Comment

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Johnny Depp‘s production company Infinitum Nihil has picked up screen rights to the Nick Tosches novel “In the Hand of Dante.” The novel will be developed as a potential starring vehicle for Depp.

The book revolves around Dante’s masterwork The Divine Comedy, and tells parallel storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy as he tries to complete the work, and a contemporary storyline involving Tosches, who is asked to authenticate what might be Dante’s original manuscript. Depp would play Tosches.

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